a haiku
Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…
No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds
Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold
The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer
When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...
Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people
Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.
Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney
Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?
Eight blondes with brown eyes nod at working men nearby. Sunflowers rule the sky. Donal Mahoney
Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day
Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.
It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about
